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SubjectRe: kernel ring buffer accessible by users
FromGrzegorz Jaskiewicz <>
Date22 Apr 2003 17:52:49 +0100
On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 17:44, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2003 18:21, Julien Oster wrote:
> > it's been quite a while that I noticed that any ordinary user, not
> > just root, can type "dmesg" to see the kernel ring buffer.
> 
> just make
> $ chmod 700 /bin/dmesg
and chmod 0600 /var/log/dmesg , as on some systems it is rw-r--r--

-- 
Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl>
K4 labs

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